>> dan lothian traveling with the president while vacationing in martha's vineyard. >>> newt gingrich, the new dough host of "cnn's "crossfire" gave a verbal smackdown to the he blasted gop members of congress for not offering any alternatives speaking at the republican national summer meeting in boston, no cameras present at that meeting, gingrich said republicans have no positive replacement for obama care, said hess party is caught in a culture that rewards obstruction and negativity. he was a bit more restrained when i later caught up with him on the phone. joining us right now, the former house speaker newt gingrich. as you know, house republicans voted 40 times to repeal to get rid of obama care. it's not going anywhere, certainly the president would veto that action and now some republicans are saying they are ready to shut down the government to do away with obama care. you believe this is a mistake. >> i don't think we should shut the government down. i think we should finance all the of the government except obama care, and i think we should be pretardy they ought to send a